{"id":145,"date":"2010-07-16T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2010-07-16T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:22:52","slug":"canadian-joint-venture-to-produce-nanotech-fibers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Joint Venture to Produce Nanotech Fibers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domtar Corporation and FPInnovations today announced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domtar.com\/en\/investors\/pressreleases\/index.asp?ID=1448579\">new joint venture<\/a> to build a commercial-scale nanocrystalline cellulose demonstration plant. During its pilot phase, the plant, located at Domtar&#8217;s Windsor, Quebec pulp and paper mill site, will produce one metric ton of the material per day.<\/p>\n<p>Nanocrystalline cellulose is an abundant nanomaterial made of cellulose fibers from the wood pulp manufacturing process that is also renewable and recyclable. Potential applications of the material include optically-reflective films, high-durability varnishes, and bioplastics. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cof.orst.edu\/cof\/wse\/faculty\/simonsen\/index.htm?q=faculty\/simonsen\/index.htm\">strength and rigidity of nanocrystalline cellulose<\/a> help make it suitable for a variety of industries such as aerospace, automotive, chemical, textile and forestry products.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the plant will begin in the coming weeks and take about 20 months. The total investment is CDN$40.8 million, shared by the partners, as well as the Canadian and provincial governments. The construction phase is expected to provide some 50 jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.domtar.com\/\">Domtar Corporation<\/a> is a manufacturer of paper for business, commercial printing, and publishing, as well as converting and specialty papers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpinnovations.ca\/\">FPInnovations<\/a> is a Canadian not-for-profit forest products research institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domtar Corporation and FPInnovations today announced a new joint venture to build a commercial-scale nanocrystalline cellulose demonstration plant. During its pilot phase, the plant, located at Domtar&#8217;s Windsor, Quebec pulp and paper mill site, will produce one metric ton of the material per day. Nanocrystalline cellulose is an abundant nanomaterial made of cellulose fibers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20,43,18],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","tag-manufacturing","tag-materials-science","tag-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}